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Why did opposition to Hitler increase during the Second World War?
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, a German Catholic, wrote a diary recording life in Germany under the Nazis. The account is told in July 1944, the month of the bomb plot, and gives contemporary opinions on opposition, conditions in Germany, the progress of the war, Hitler and the Nazi Party. There is a description of how, despite the fact that Germany was clearly losing the war, Hitler remained in power.
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